Earth System and ClimateAnna Breuninger, University of Alaska Anchorage An introduction to global climate change with an Earth Systems approach. The focus will be current climate change put into the context of climate change at a geologic time scale.

Global Climate Change This interdisciplinary courses focuses on how and why Earth's climate has changed thoughout its history and how it is likely to change in the near future. It draws from geology, chemistry, meteorology, ...

Planetary Climate ChangeDave Dempsey, San Francisco State University What are weather and climate, how has climate changed in the past, how do we know, what causes climate to change, and how can we predict future climate? Planetary Climate Change explores scientists' current ...

Human Dimensions of Climate Change: Past and FuturePersaram Batra, Mount Holyoke College In this course we will examine how rapid climate change has affected human civilizations in the past and how it might in the future. Through a critical reading of the literature and by analysis and discussion we ...

Climate ScienceJessica Kleiss, Lewis and Clark College Introduction to the earth's climate from a physical, earth-systems perspective. Prehistoric and historic fluctuations in the earth's climate, the current climate system, and projections for future climate ...

Global Climate Change and Earth HistoryBob Mackay, Clark College This course introduces students to Global Change Science through lecture presentations, classroom discussions, assigned readings, and activities designed specifically to complement lecture topics. The course is ...

Ethics and Climate ChangeLauren Nichols, Program on Values in Society and Program on Environment, University of Washington - Seattle This course addresses ethical issues related to climate change such as: Why is climate change an ethical issue? What would constitute a just allocation of the burdens of climate change? In what ways does ...

Climate and Global ChangeKatherine Straub, Susquehanna University The objective of this course is to analyze the issue of global warming from multiple perspectives, including science, policy, law, and economics, with a particular emphasis on critical reading and writing skills. ...